Does anyone have any experience of using high tensile g70 chain and trading down to a smaller guage? From what I have read on www.morganscloud.com etc. 8mm x g70 is as strong as 10mm x g40 which means that either we could carry more chain or carry less weight. I guess it comes at a cost (don 't know how much) but is there another snag? Obviously we would have to change the gypsy too.

Simon

Dick,
I hope you are right as I just switched from 60m of 10mm to 100m of 8mm keeping the former as a second anchor. Did this in readiness for the deep fjords of Greenland next year. Just back from a super trip around the north of Iceland and have left the boat in a very secure winter Reykjavik berth. Certainly the logic of the longer, stronger chain is very persuasive.
Simon